Combination dispensing carton and material holder



Sept. 5, 1933. J. c. JACOBS 1,925,189

COMBINATION DISPENSING CARTON AND MATERIAL HOLDER Filed Jan. 28, 1933 2 Sheets-Sheet l Inventor fiaepizfl facobs,

J. C. JACOBS Sept. 5, 1933.

COMBINATION DISPENSING CARTON AND MATERIAL HOLDER Filed Jan. 28, 1933 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Invcnlor Jase 97a 6, Jacobs,

Patented Sept. 5, 1933 UNITED STATES COMBINATION DISPENSING CARTON AND MATERIAL HOLDER Joseph 0. Jacobs, Laredo, Tex.

Application January 28, 1933. Serial No. 654,068

3 Claims.

This invention relates to a special packaging carton for maintenance of dry granular materials, such as for example table salt; together with a complemental material holder, such as for 5 example a salt cellar.

In carrying the inventive conception into actual practice, I have had in mind the development of a novel and unique box or carton for table salt having a special valved pocket at its bottom, which pocket is made for removable reception of a special valved salt cellar whereby to provide an arrangement permitting the salt cellar to be inserted in the pocket at which time the coordinated valves are moved to open position and the salt allowed to gravitate from the carton into the cellar or shaker and the latter part removed for table use.

My idea is to expedite the filling of salt shakers through the adoption and use of expeditious and dependable means whereby when the shaker is inserted into the special dispensing compartment of the carton the valve in the carton as well as the valve in the shaker is moved to open position to allow the salt to enter the shaker and when the shaker is removed the valves in both parts are closed for evident reasons.

In carrying the inventive conception into actual practice I have evolved and produced an unusual selection and mechanical co-ordination of details calculated to permit the desired results to be attained in a successful and efiicient manner.

Other features and advantages of the invention will become more readily apparent from the following description and drawings.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a front elevational view showing the special dispensing compartment with the salt cellar or shaker inserted in the filling pocket to allow the salt to enter the shaker.

Figure 2 is a side elevational or edge view observing the lower left-hand corner portion of the structure seen in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a transverse vertical sectional view taken approximately on the plane of the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figures 4 and 5 are horizontal sections taken on the planes of the lines 4-4 and 55 respectively of Figure l, observing the details in the 0 direction of the respective sets of arrows.

Figure 6 is a similar horizontal sectional view taken on approximately the same line as Figure 4-4 looking downwardly in the direction of the arrows, the section being described on the line 66 of Figure 1.

Figure 7 is a fragmentary detail view of a portion of the salt shaker.

Figure 8 is a view like Figure 2 with the shaker removed to show the special filling pocket.

In Figure 1 the numeral 9 designates the cardboard box or carton, this being shown as of rectangular form with the main salt containing compartment indicated at 10. As shown in Figure 8 the lower end portion of the carton is extended as indicated at 11 and left open on one side to define what may be designated as a spiller pocket 12.

Attention is now invited to Figure 3 wherein it will be observed that the bottom of the salt compartn cut 10 is distinguished by the numeral 13 and spaced below this and arranged in parallelism thereto is a valve covering plate 14 and between the bottom 13 and plate 14 is a rotary shutter valve 15 pivotally mounted at its center as indicated at 16.

As seen in Figure 4, the valve supporting plate 14 is provided with a slit 16 having an enlarged entrance portion 17 defining a guideway. Intermediate the ends of this guideway is a headed valve actuating stud or pin 18 which depends slightly into the compartment 12. The valve is formed with a marginal notch 19 defining an actuating abutment which spans the guide slot 16'. Also the valve is formed with a segmental opening for registry with the salt discharge opening 20 formed in the bottom of the salt compartment 10.

I here use the term bottom to define the parts 13, 14 and the intervening valve 15 shown in Figure 3. Thus so far as I have gone it will be observed that we have an elongated rectangular salt box the bottom of whose compartment 10 is formed with a special valved discharge opening through which the salt is dispensed by gravity into the horizontally elongated open-ended pocket 12. It is of course not my intention to drop the salt into this pocket but rather to allow it to gravitate into the special companion salt shaker or cellar generally differentiated by the numeral 21.

The salt cellar embodies a substantially cubical or rectangular body 22 which is proportioned and shaped to fit telescopically in the pocket 12 by simply sliding the bottom end of the salt cellar in until it assumes the position represented in the drawings. Incidentally the filler neck which now becomes the discharge neck is distinguished by the numeral 23 and the apertured closing cap by the numeral 24.

The top wall 25 of the body of the salt shaker 110 is denoted in Figure 3 by the numeral 26 and superimposed upon this is an additional spaced parallel wall 2". and these two walls form a sort of sheath or enclosure for the rotary disc-like valve 28. This valve is opposed to the valve 15 when in the position shown in Figure 3 and pivotally attached at its center as indicated at 29.

The additional or special wall 27 is formed with a guide slot 30 which as seen in Figure 5 has an enlarged mouth or entrance portion 31. This slot is adapted to receive and accommodate headed studs 18 in Figure 4. Then on the salt cellar as shown in Figure 7 is a similar headed stud 32 which rides in the slot 16. It will be observed that these slots are movable into close spaced parallelism as indicated in Figure 5 and that the headed pin 18 extends into the slot 30 while the shaker pin 32 extends into the slot 18.

The valve 28 like the valve 15 is formed with a marginal or peripheral notch 33 providing a shoulder which spans the slot 30 as. shown in Figure 6. Both of the valves are provided with a circular depression 34 which function as retention detents in that they frictionally hold the valves in either op en or closed position and prevent the valves from freely rotating to undesirable positions.

In Figure 6 the intake opening in the salt shaker is merely distinguished by the numeral 35 and the correspondingly shaped opening in the valve 28 is designed to register therewith when the valve is open. The valve is shown in open position in Figures 4, 5 and 6.

It is to be observed that the two headed pins 18 and 32 are so related with respect to the guide slots 16 and 30 as to enter the slots and occupy the position shown in Figure 5 when the salt shaker is slid into the filling pocket 12. This means that when placing the salt shaker in position for filling it must be turned so that the valved side is up and parallel to the bottom in the carton 9. Also it means that the head 32 must be registered with the entrance 17 of the slot 16 after which the shaker is slid into the pocket in an obvious manner. The headed pin 18 of course rides into the slot 30 and both pins come against the respective abutment edges 19 and 33 of the valves which edges extend across the slots in an obvious manner.

Under this arrangement both valves are swung to open position allowing the salt to gravitate from the box into the salt cellar and then the salt cellar is withdrawn and the headed pins again strike the valve to move the valves to closing position.

The gist of the novelty is found in the provision of a suitably sized salt dispensing compartment having an open-ended rectangular horizontally disposed receivin pocket at its lower end wherein that wall between the main compartment of the carton and pocket is formed with a rotary valve normally occupying a closed position. This operates in conjunction with the special valved salt shaker or salt cellar which is shaped to be slipped through the open end of the pocket into the pocket and the arrangement includes a special headed pin guide slot arranged in the respective parts with the pins so located with respect to the valve as to move the valve to open and closed position as the salt shaker is inserted and withdrawn.

In this arrangement the salt shaker can be readily inserted, filled, and quickly removed, whereby to render the device especially useful in restaurants where quick filling of a number of salt shakers would be found desirable.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of the invention will be readily apparent.

It is to be understood that changes may be made in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. In a structure of the class described, in combination, a salt dispensing carton formed at one end with an open-ended pocket for reception and positioning of a special salt shaker, the bottom of the salt compartment of the carton being formed with discharge openings and with a control valve therefor, the salt shaker being shaped to fit slidably and removably in said pocket, the top wall thereof being formed with salt intake openings for registry with the salt discharge opening, a control valve mounted in the salt shaker controlling the intake opening, and co-acting elements on the salt shaker and carton for simultaneously opening and closing said valves as the shaker is inserted and removed.

2. In a structure of the class described, an elongated rectangular salt containing and dispensing carton, said carton being formed at one end with an extension shaped to define a special filler pocket for removable reception of a salt shaker, the bottom of the salt compartment hav- 1 ing a discharge aperture, a plate underlying and disposed in parallelism to said apertured bottom and formed with a registering aperture, said plate being further provided with an open-ended guide slot, a rotary apertured disc-like valve located between the bottom and plate and having a notched marginal portion with said portion spanning the slot to provide an operating abutment, and a headed valve operating pin connected to and depending from the slotted plate at a predetermined point.

3. In a structure of the class described, an elongated rectangular salt containing and dispensing carton, said carton being formed at one end with an extension shaped to'define a special filler pocket for removable reception of a salt shaker, the bottom of the salt compartment having a discharge aperture, a plate underlying and disposed in parallelism to said apertured bottom and formed with a registering aperture, said plate being further provided with an open-ended guide slot, a rotary apertured disc-like valve located between the bottom and plate and having a notched marginal portion with said portion spanning the slot to provide an operating abutment, and a headed valve operating pin connected to and depending from the slotted plate at a predetermined point, and a rectangular salt shaker, the top wall thereof being formed with spaced plates having registering intake apertures, the outermost plate being formed with an openended guide slot to accommodate the aforesaid headed pin, said plate being itself provided with a headed pin for operation in the first-named slot to actuate the first-named valve and a second control valve interposed between the spaced plates of the salt shaker with a notched periphery providing an operating surface spanning the second-named slot whereby when the salt shaker'is 1 JOSEPH C. JACOBS. 

